"When the past and the future melt together, what happens?" asked Nicola Formichetti. The creative director of Mugler—whom you may remember because of this epic ELLE shoot—wasn't using the word "melt" carelessly.

"I've been thinking about powerful [things like] touching water [and] surfers," he admitted, which explains the details on his Fall 2013 collection, such as neoprene collars and sleeves, silk dresses tailored like water ripples, and fur dresses and skirts inspired by wetsuits. When his models went down the runway, their hazy reflections were visible on the floor, giving the impression they were literally walking on water.

"There's also the idea of a classic Hitchcock heroine," he noted.

"The way those women wore their suits 'just so,' and the way they had their fur, and it looked so rich in a black-and-white movie. My mother was an airline stewardess, and that kind of retro uniform was always so exciting to me—the lines and the buttoned-up detail… The music in the show actually samples the theme song from Carrie… not because I wanted to reference Sissy Spacek in her '70s prom [dress] but because it's so suspenseful. It has a classic film noir feel that I think is very Hitchcock."

Later that night, the star of the much-anticipated Carrie remake, Chloë Grace Moretz, learned about Formichetti's runway reference. "Are you serious? Mugler?" she asked from the front row at H&M's first-ever Paris runway. "I feel like that's a big deal… Actually, I feel like that's amazing!"